Feb. 17, 2012


Time Magazine's Person of the Year

See who Time Magazine has selected as Person of the Year since 1927
Focus on their Person of the Year selections for the 1990s and 2000s

Read the cover story for the Dec. 25, 2006 issue of Time Magazine
Time's Person of the Year: YOU
Highlight 2 or 3 phrases/sentences that stand out to you.
Write at least one comment and one question that you have about what you read.
Socratic Seminar


Join the Flat Classroom Ning


Here's the process to sign up for the Flat Classroom Project Ning:
  1. Go to http://flatclassroomproject.ning.com/
  2. Click the button that says "Sign Up" (top right corner)
  3. Enter your email address, password, birthday, and Captcha as prompted; click “Sign Up”
  4. Check your email inbox and click on the link provided to "Verify Your Email on Flat Classroom Project"
  5. Fill in your name (first name and GLC) and profile information as prompted, then click "Join"
  6. Wait for your membership to be approved by a Ning Administrator
  7. You will receive an email message saying “Your Flat Classroom Project membership has been approved”

Join the NetGenEd 2012 group (mouse over NetGenEd Project at top and click on NetGen Students)
Add your own handshake blog post introducing yourself to the other students in the project
Create a script or storyboard for your video introduction


Infographics about the Internet


Read aloud and think aloud what the text is saying (through words, images, and other graphic features)
Analyze, Synthesize, Summarize, and Share what you've learned from your infographic with the whole class
Be sure to answer all of these questions that apply . . .
Who? What? When? Where? Why? How? and So What?
  1. A Day in the Internet
  2. How the Internet Works
  3. History of the Internet
  4. The Internet!
  5. Internet in 2020
  6. Internet Statistics
  7. State of the Internet
  8. How the World Spends its Time Online
  9. Who Participates and What People are Doing
  10. Internet Speeds and Costs Around the World
  11. How different age groups are using the Internet
  12. Exploring the Exploding Internet
  13. 10 Years of Wikipedia
  14. Web Trend Map 4 (Here is a blog post about the map from its developers)